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7th ESENIAS Workshop and Conference

Written by Trichkova

Sunday, 22 January 2017 06:14

The 7th ESENIAS Workshop with Scientific Conference ‘Networking and Regional Cooperation Towards Invasive Alien Species Prevention and Management in Europe’ was held on 28–30 March 2017, in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The conference was organised by the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBER-BAS), ESENIAS and the Danube Region Invasive Alien Species Network (DIAS). It was funded by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2009-2014, Programme BG03 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, ESENIAS-TOOLS Project, D-33-51/30.06.2015, and the Bulgarian Science Fund, Project DPMNF 01/8/ 21.03.2017.

The ESENIAS Conference provided a forum for presentation of multidisciplinary research activities on various topics related to invasive alien species, highlighting the importance of regional cooperation for finding solutions at national, regional and European scale. The following topics were covered:

3. The Danube River as invasive alien species corridor – priority species for the Danube Region, impact on threatened species, specificity of biological invasions in Lower, Middle and Upper Danube River sections